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Exploring the role of teacher talk in Saudi EFL classroom: importance of F-Move in developing students’ spoken skill
Alanazi, Mohammed Judaya M1, Widin, Jacquie2.
English language teaching in Saudi Arabia faces several challenges from both teacher and
students’ perspective. Teacher Talk (TT) is one of the areas of teaching and learning which is often
neglected in classroom research even with its high importance in student learning. Identifying the
literature gap on TT in specific sociocultural contexts, this study aims to investigate different types
of f-moves in Teacher Talk and their impact on developing students’ dialogic skills in English as
Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Saudi Arabia. The IRF sequence (initiation, response,
feedback or F-move) is considered a common sequence of TT in Saudi EFL classrooms. This study
uses Cullen’s (2002) analytical framework which focuses on the third sequence of the IRF and
Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory to explore the emerging themes of TT in Saudi Arabian
secondary classrooms. The methodology of the study is a qualitative case study, and the
participants of the study are 18 secondary school teachers all share Arabic as their first language.
The data was collected through classroom observation, audio-recording of forty-five-minute
classroom lessons, and semi-structured teacher interviews. The analysis focused on the discoursal
and evaluative role of F-Move. The data analysis shows three F-Move types 1) F-Move Repetition
Discoursal 2) F-Move Evaluative 3) F-Move Elaborative Discoursal. The findings point out that
these F-Moves may increase student-teacher interaction, identification, and correction of errors,
and maintain and guide dialogic conversation/interaction between teacher and students if it is
correctly oriented. The data analysis shows examples in which TT promotes students’ involvement
and increases their dialogic skills while, on the other hand, when TT reduces students’ potential to
participate and consequently reduces the students’ spoken output.
Affiliation:
- Ministry of Education Malaysia, Malaysia
- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
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